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| DCC Components
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Auto Reverse, Booster, Command station, Computer Interface, Consists, How DCC works, Mobile Decoder, Power supply, Speed steps, Stationary Decoder, XPressNet
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| General
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Address Range, Ammeter, Analog, Bus, Cab, Can Motor, Command Control, Coreless Motor, DCC, DMM, Distributed Power, Frog Juicer, Jump Port, Locomotive, MU consisting, Motor, NMRAnet, OEM, Power Bus, Programming Track, Pulse Width Modulation, SUSI, Slots, Turnout, Turnout Motors, Voltage drop, Zero Stretching
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| Mobile decoder
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Analog Conversion, Back EMF, Decoder Connection Method, Decoder-Assisted Consisting, Ditch Lights, Dither, Energy Storage, FX Lighting, Functions, High-Frequency Decoders, Kick Start, Loco Momentum, Locomotive Interface, NMRA Connector, Power Conversion, Programming Lock, Programming Modes, Quartering, Silent Drive, Speed Table, Transponding, USP, XOR
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| Non-DCC
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| Primary DCC Components
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| Short Definition
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Belief that electronic devices contain 'magic smoke' that escapes when the device is overloaded (ie burned out).
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When an electronic device (LED, transistor, computer chip, or DCC decoder) is electrically overloaded you sometimes get a whiff of something burning-- and you might actually see a puff of smoke rising from the remains of the device. There is a sentiment in the world of electronics that this is "Magic" smoke. It is sealed into the electronic device at its manufacture, and "letting the magic smoke out" is a way of saying that the device has been electrically destroyed.
